or movies (I used to, but I don’t really have time for them anymore. Sure, my love of creepy things forces me to sleep with lights on, but I still love them. What if, like her father, she’s suffering from a breakdown? In this second novel from award-winning author Yvonne Ventresca, Ella desperately needs to find answers, no matter how disturbing the truth might be. Soon the evidence points to someone else entirely: Ella herself. If it’s not a warning, could her new too-good-to-be-true boyfriend be responsible for the strange occurrences? Or maybe it’s the grieving building superintendent whose dead daughter strongly resembles Ella? As the unexplained events become more frequent and more sinister, Ella becomes terrified about who-or what-might harm her. When a handprint much like the one Ella left on her father’s tombstone mysteriously appears on the bathroom mirror, at first she wonders if Dad is warning her of danger as he did once before. After a lifetime of just the two of them, Mom suddenly feels like a stranger. Newfound evidence points to his death in a psychiatric hospital, not as a result of a tragic car accident as her mother always claimed. Ella’s mother might be lying about how Dad died sixteen years ago. But she may not be the only one with secrets. Since her mother discourages these beliefs, Ella keeps her cemetery visits secret. Her father died before she was born, but Ella Benton knows they have a supernatural connection.
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No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Edges of the text block show some small dots of bump marks to the top edge. Cover boards are flat, the corners are not bumped or creased, no edge wear to the cover boards. Black cloth covered cover boards, with the author name and title imprinted on the spine in gold. Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant BUY THIS BOOK Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant Philip Hoare. Tear is not very noticeable though as the jacket has been protected with a clear, removable cover. There is a 1" closed tear on the back panel of the jacket - to the right of the William Hickey blurb. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. 464 pages with Index, Notes and four sections of photos, 6-3/8" X 9-1/2". Written in English 463pages From Goodreads: Stephen Tennant died intestate in 1987, aged 80, and has become a cult figure. An in-depth look at the life of Stephen Tennant, from his early life at Wilsford Manor to his friendships with Rex Whistler and Cecil Beaton, Great Garbo, Christopher Isherwood, and his relationship with Siegfried Sassoon, to his later years in seclusion. Serious pleasures the life of Stephen Tennant by Philip Hoare 0Ratings 3 Want to read 1 Currently reading 1 Have read This edition was published in 1992by Penguin Booksin New York. First edition hardcover with dust jacket, published by Hamish Hamilton, 1990. And a good looking but slatternly gold digger too. Sure, there is a murder the Op has to solve, but soon, in addition, we have stabbings, ambushes, furtive late night shootings and afternoon gun battles. Our detective, the nameless “Continental Op”-employed by the Continental Detective Agency-soon begins systematically destroying the rival gangs by sowing lies and discord among them. Oh they broke it alright, but now these gangsters-with names like Lew Yard, “Whispers,” Pete the Finn-have carved Elihu’s little city into fiefdoms, and Boss Wilsson is not the boss anymore. A few years before the book opens, mining tycoon and city boss Elihu Wilsson called in some thugs and goons to break a mining strike. The City is Personville, and people call it “Poisonville,” but not because they are speaking with an accent. I’ll give you three good reasons-from least to most-why you should read Red Harvest: 1) it made possible the fine Leone film A Fistful of Dollars, 2) it inspired the Kurosawa masterpiece Iojimbo which influenced A Fistful of Dollars, and 3) it is an old school hard boiled, hardcore novel, with a detective as tough as Spade, Marlowe and Hammer put together, written in hard-as-nails prose, and set in a small West Coast city, a city with a heart of stone. Together, they cofounded Pickford-Fairbanks Studios and United Artists in Hollywood California, and in 1929 Mary was was awarded the second Academy Award for Best Actress for her first sound film role in Coquette at the 1st Academy Awards which Fairbanks hosted. With their marriage in 1920, the couple became “Hollywood royalty”, she earning the title “Queen of the Movies, and he “The King of Hollywood”. from Will Durant & Ariel.” The recipients, Douglas and Mary Lee Fairbanks, were pioneers in the American film industry and two of the most popular actors of their time. 19, 1966”, and to the flyleaf of The Age of Louis XIV, “To Douglas & Mary Lee enjoying their hospitality. The inscription on the half-title page of The Life of Greece reads, “To Douglas + Mary Lee with love from Will Durant 5-6-69 A great evening!”, to the flyleaf of The Age of Voltaire, “For Douglas & Mary Lee affectionately, from Will Durant & Ariel At the Bolton’s Sept. Presentation copies, each volume (with the exception IV and X) inscribed by William and Ariel Durant to Douglas and Mary Lee Fairbanks on various dates. Royal octavo, 11 volumes, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Rare complete set of Durant’s monumental achievement with 10 volumes inscribed by him to “The King of Hollywood” Douglas Fairbanks. The Story of Civilization.ĭURANT, William and Ariel. The narrator drifts restlessly through the sterile and impersonal atmosphere of various airports and cities, reflecting on the behaviour of the passengers around her while in transit. Other stories and essays are woven into the narrative and offer some interesting metaphors about borders, migration and human anatomy and how we make sense of the world and our place in it. However, for a novel supposedly about travel, the purpose of the narrator’s journey is never made clear and I found it difficult to tolerate her aimlessness at times. The appeal of going to new places and the freedom it offers for citizens particularly in the post-Cold War context is a key theme. Sebald in its meditative prose style and use of images (there are several illustrations and maps throughout). ‘Flights’ has drawn stylistic comparisons to ‘Austerlitz’ by W. ‘Flights’ is about an unnamed woman and her reflections on travelling – and that’s about it as far as plot goes in this very fragmented book which can only be described as a “novel” in the loosest sense possible as it is more of a collection of thematically linked observations and vignettes. I didn’t have time to shadow the MBIP last spring but as August is Women in Translation Month, this seemed like a good time to find out what to make of it. I have recently read this year’s winner of the Man Booker International Prize ‘Flights’ by Olga Tokarczuk which was first published in Poland back in 2007 and has been translated by Jennifer Croft. There’s a riff on colonial fiction and attitudes of the turn of the 20th century, the “jungle” narratives and assumptions of savagery. This isn’t just a love story, it’s the LAST love story ever told. Even though reality is unraveling all around them, nothing can pull them apart. Two disparate souls separated by thousands of years and hundreds of millions of miles. It’s the year 1921, and renowned English explorer William Pike leads an expedition into the dense jungles of Peru in search of the fabled “Lost Temple of the Incas,” an elusive sanctuary said to have strange healing properties. It’s the year 3797, and botanist Nika Temsmith is researching a strange species on a remote science station near the outermost rim of colonized space. Jeff Lemire also earns my respect for his high concept sci-fi, which mixes portals through time and space with a star-crossed (literally?) lovers story. Trillium is a creator-owned comic published by Vertigo. But first, he's exposing the camp's horrible truths for what they are-and taking this place down. : Surrender Your Sons: 9781662032189: Sass, Adam, Henning, Daniel: Books Books Teen & Young Adult Literature & Fiction Buy new: 14.62 List Price: 22.99 Save: 8.37 (36) Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE delivery Wednesday, October 19 if you spend 25 on items shipped by Amazon. Connor plans to escape and bring the other kidnapped teens with him. At Nightlight, everyone has something to hide-from the campers to the "converted" staff and cagey camp director-and it quickly becomes clear that no one is safe. Well be pulling inspiration from TheAdamSass s Surrender Your Sons, so keep your. which is all about being Bible camp counselors during an apocalypse. Last game we have scheduled for recording is. Your coven of bi+ witches must rush to the rescue. His final destination: Nightlight Ministries, a conversion therapy camp that will be his new home until he "changes."īut Connor's troubles are only beginning. Let your bi flag fly, witches A unicorn is missing. His SAT scores bombed, the old man he delivers meals to died, and when he came out to his religious zealot mother, she had him kidnapped and shipped off to a secluded island. just with gay teenagers taking the horrors of the world head on.Ī 2020 Booklist Top 10 First Novels for Youth selectionĪ 2020 Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Books selectionĪ 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Bronze Winner, Young Adult FictionĬonnor Major's summer break is turning into a nightmare. Surrender Your Sons is an LGBTQ+ YA mystery / thriller that expertly blends together humor, horror, and heart, in a wholly unique read like no other.
Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Masterful.-People A fascinating love story.-San Francisco Chronicle Truly artful fiction.-The New York Times I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. Book Synopsis NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of The House of Lincoln, an enthralling novel that brings the buried truths of the ill-starred relationship of Mamah Borthwick Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright to light (The New York Times Book Review). About the Book This graceful, assured first novel tells the remarkable story of the long-lived affair between Frank Lloyd Wright, a passionate and impossible figure, and Mamah Cheney, a married woman whom Wright beguiled and led beyond the restraint of convention-Scott Turow. Coates began publishing his journalism in a variety of outlets, including The Village Voice, Time, and The New York Times. After five years at Howard Coates left without graduating, and when they were both 24 he and Kenyatta had a son, Samori. It was during this time that he also met his future spouse, Kenyatta Matthews. During his time at Howard, Coates began to work as a freelance journalist. Following high school, Coates attended Howard University, where his father worked as a research librarian. He recalls that his middle school in particular was extremely violent, and that during these years he had to be especially careful in order to protect himself. Coates grew up during the crack epidemic, attending public schools in West Baltimore. The name Ta-Nehisi comes from an Egyptian word for Nubia, which roughly translates to “land of the black.” Coates had seven siblings on his father’s side his parents were strict and attentive, and his mother taught him to read at the age of four. Ta-Nehisi Coates was born to Cheryl Waters and Paul Coates, a former local captain of the Black Panther Party and founder of Black Classic Press. |